This just reaffirms my beleif that a large swath of CTO's aren't doing their jobs as they should be. Having seen the inside of many companies, the ones with the

This just reaffirms my beleif that a large swath of CTO's aren't doing their jobs as they should be. Having seen the inside of many companies, the ones with the most issues were ones were the CTO would rather be a programmer than be the bridge between IT and the C's and the board. Now, this seems like a well written book with good points, but I don't see a single CTO level reference (other than the payment providers section) to the business and business politics side, which is what is underserved and underrepresented in the boardroom. The claim here is that this person became an unintential "CTO", and frankly context clues indicate to me their role was anything but. The roles of CTO/CIO are the most misunderstood by the industry in my opinion, so I guess I can't blame the author too much, but it's a bad use of the title.